Biography

Mariana Ricciardi is a Creative and Executive Producer with over 25 acclaimed titles across film, television, and streaming. With a career spanning international co-productions and award-winning content, she bridges creativity, business, and impact, transforming narratives into long-term cultural assets.

Her portfolio includes theatrical hits such as My Sister and I (by Susana Garcia) and the Oscars-shortlisted Clandestine Childhood (by Benjamín Ávila, Cannes Directors' Fortnight). She also collaborated on Silver Cliff (by Karim Aïnouz, Cannes Directors' Fortnight) and led the Brazilian unit of the documentary This Is Not a Ball (by Vik Muniz and Juan Rendón), shortlisted for the Academy Awards®. Other notable projects include Eduardo and Monica, Petit Mal (FID Marseille), and the thriller A Happy Family (by José Eduardo Belmonte and Raphael Montes).

In television, Ricciardi produced the International Emmy® Nominated Impure (Hulu . Disney), Love in 4 Acts (Globo), and Lilyhammer (Netflix) - the platform's first original production outside the U.S. Her international expertise was strengthened by studies in Film Business at Universidad Europea de Madrid (Spain), Screenwriting at both EICTV (Cuba) and Academy of Performing Arts (Czech Republic).

At Andaluz, Ricciardi leads a new model of creative venture building, developing, financing, and managing intellectual properties that originate in the audiovisual universe but expand into multiple cultural and commercial formats. She integrates creators, studios, and brands within a scalable ecosystem that connects storytelling, innovation, and investment. Through Andaluz, she positions culture as infrastructure, turning creativity into industry, and stories into capital.
- IMDb mini biography by: Andaluz Entertainment